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tal@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
If I had to make a guess, not handling cash is a way of helping tamp down on crime, and the benefit is probably relatively-larger in poorer countries. Like, it’s hard to rob a store if the guy at the counter has no access to the money that the customers have been dropping off.
'course, cash is good for privacy, and especially when compared to a smartphone app, but…
Pruning9165@feddit.org 5 hours ago
Cash here somehow is IMHO designed to be inconvenient. The largest denomination bill is 100 yuan, that’s $15 but people in Beijing take 8000 yuan as monthly salary. 6 years ago I saw people going to deposit cash in bank with huge swaths of cash. At computers stores you’ll see the automatic money counters like in a bank, as buying a laptop would require 80-100 bills…